#interactions — Public Fediverse posts

#KnowledgeByte: In physics, there are four observed #Fundamental #Interactions (also known as Fundamental #Forces) that form the basis of all known interactions in nature.

Some speculative theories have proposed a fifth force to explain various anomalous observations that do not fit existing theories. Recently some progress made in search for the #FifthForce.

https://knowledgezone.co.in/posts/Fundamental-Forces-of-Nature-64d88bfaed7a1cf91c654df8

Dickovers, Baggravation And Botiquette - 18 New Words To Describe Our Tech Hellscape
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https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/aug/18/dickovers-baggravation-botiquette-18-new-words-tech-hellscape <-- shared media article
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[not my usual fare, but a good article – and we DO see some of this in a professional setting too of course!
• 'Captchore' is my new favourite portmanteau!
• And ‘AI-horning’ to describe trying to force – badly – AI in such inane ways!
• Ironically this @the Guardian article has a Dickover ~wink~
• I want to suggest #ATMQueueOldPersonNamaste ~smile~]
“There are many tech irritants that are a scourge of modern life, yet we have lacked the vocabulary to describe them ... until now
The “dickover” is the scourge of the modern age. Coined in May by John Gruber, a tech writer, it is defined as “a modal panel, popover, or curtain presented by a website or app, deliberately obscuring its own content to frustrate the user”. Essentially, it is the thing (or more often, things) you have to click away in order to read the thing you wanted to read. It is the “accept cookies” box, the “allow notifications?” box, the “sign in with Google” box, the pop-up video box, etc.
We shouldn’t fool ourselves into thinking that dickovers are the only terrible thing about technology in 2026. Until now, though, we have lacked the vocabulary to describe them, so here are some suggestions…”
#tech #consumer #interactions #Dickovers #Baggravation #Botiquette #Captchore #AIhorning #Quitshaming #Cartcling #online #Chatflattery #obsequiousAI #Botiquette #Chattermining #Loginsanity #Limpetlisting #Parkware #Gatejamming #ATMQueueOldPersonNamaste #Baggravation #Parcelliveblogging #Socketboomerism #SchrödingersWiFi #Formnesia #Hostageware #selfcheckout #digitalleash
@TheGuardian

Zen et physique quantique

Selon la découverte de Planck qui est le fondement de la physique quantique, l’énergie possède une structure discrète, discontinue. La base en est le quantum. Ceci correspond à une véritable révolution. Nous sommes habitués à un monde continu, fait de relations de causes à effets, d’interactions transmises d’un endroit à l’autre et d’un temps linéaire. Comment comprendre alors un monde fait d’entités discontinues, les quanta d’énergie ? Comment comprendre la vraie discontinuité, c’est-à-dire imaginer qu’entre deux points il n’y a rien, ni objets, ni atomes, ni particules, tout simplement rien ? Comment, bien que la physique n’ait pas abordé ce sujet réellement et que le temps soit toujours considéré comme une variable continue, comment comprendre la relation entre le temps qui s’écoule et l’instant ? Combien y-a-t-il de temps entre deux instants ? Le temps est-il une suite d’instants ? Comment embrasser à la fois le temps qui s’écoule et la discontinuité des instants ? En physique, une situation bancale s’est instaurée, on a gardé l’espace-temps de la physique classique et de la relativité générale, continu, et les lois de la physique quantique, discontinues. C’est vraiment une situation insatisfaisante créant beaucoup de problèmes de compréhension.

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Souvent d’ailleurs les résultats des deux approches sont très similaires et conduisent à la même perception globale de notre univers. En ce sens les réunir, tout en connaissant leurs limites propres, l’une due à la vérification, l’autre due à l’approche fragmentaire, est en soi intéressant, chaque homme désirant au fond de lui-même intégrer les mondes scientifiques et disons, religieux.

Revenons encore une fois sur les deux enseignements procurés par le zen et la physique.

Dans le zen l’intuition de la vacuité, de l’impermanence de toutes choses ainsi que de leur interdépendance, alimentée par l’observation de la relation entre nos pensées conscientes et inconscientes, nous amène à concevoir plus facilement la non-existence de toute essence singulière des êtres et des choses. En place d’une réalité matérielle permanente, existentielle, d’un noumène, le zen met en avant le fait que la réalité n’est constituée que de formes, matérielles ou vivantes. Tout ne fait que prendre une forme particulière de la vacuité, du Tao, du Dharma qui constitue son origine première, sa source fondamentale. Aucun noumène, tout est vacuité.

A partir de cette connaissance du zen, il est alors plus aisé d’envisager un univers peuplé à 70% d’énergie invisible, de champs énergétiques, de particules virtuelles, duquel naissent et disparaissent les constituants de la matière. Selon Einstein et la physique quantique, la matière n’est qu’une forme particulière de l’énergie. La matière existe bien sûr mais comme une forme localisée d’énergie au repos : E = mc2, où E est l’énergie, m la masse et c la vitesse de la lumière.

L’observation du boson de Higgs vérifiant le mécanisme de Higgs a permis d’établir que l’origine de la masse et de la diversification des masses provient du couplage des quarks avec l’énergie contenue dans le champ de Higgs. Celui-ci n’est pas observable en lui-même, mais les formes qu’il prend, particules, bosons, matière, sont réelles. Elles naissent de ce fonds énergétique et y retournent. Ce mécanisme physique est semblable à celui décrit dans le Sutra du Coeur, l’Hannya Shingyo où les phénomènes (les particules) naissent de la vacuité (champ de Higgs) et retournent à la vacuité. Leur essence première est donc la vacuité elle-même, inobservable, inconcevable et hors du temps.

On peut en déduire que le paradigme du zen, sa vision du monde, de la vacuité, des formes et des phénomènes, paradigme intuitif, se retrouve dans les dernières découvertes de la physique. Comprenez bien que les paragraphes suivants de ce livre ne prétendent aucunement composer un article scientifique, mais sont destinés à des gens qui s’intéressent sans à priori à la fois aux conceptions du zen et à son enseignement, et à la fois à la vision nouvelle apportée à notre connaissance du monde par la physique quantique et les constituants élémentaires pour la plupart éphémères de ce que nous appelons la matière.

Vincent Keisen Vuillemin dans Zen et physique quantique

Une pièce musicale de Kitaro – The Light Of The Spirit 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TzqotvgbrY

17 times tighter: Physicists set most stringent bounds yet on exotic spin-spin interactions

https://1ban.news/exotic-spin-interactions-amherst-comagnetometer/
#1ban #exotic #spin #interactions #amherst #science

Google DeepMind is worried about what happens when millions of agents start to interact | MIT Technology Review https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/06/11/1138794/google-deepmind-is-worried-about-what-happens-when-millions-of-agents-start-to-interact/ #AI #Agents #interactions #RiskManagement

#Virus-host #interactions on #volcanic #ash from Mount #Etna, https://etidiohnew.blogspot.com/2026/06/virus-host-interactions-on-volcanic-ash.html

Calle 34 • Cartagena, Colombia

Rolleiflex 2.8 D • Kodak Tri-X 400 • 2026

#FilmPhotography #Kodak #TriX #Camera #Film120 #MediumFormat #Rolleiflex #BWfilm #Monochrome #Photography #Cartagena #Colombia #GroupOfPeople #Interactions #Buildings #Street #Scene #City #Outdoors #April_29_2026

@chablizpopnoir "Have you struggled in #social #interactions your entire life & have a need for #clarity & structure? Even a sixty-year-old can still receive an #autism #diagnosis." Indeed - I was 50 when I had mine, & I'm 69 now.

Conferencing in Zaragoza this week: #Complenet26 is happening and I get to hear a lot about #graphs, #hypergraphs contagions and hopefully also about face-to-face #interactions .
My poster (and accepted paper and (more importantly) chapter of my thesis) is exploratory work using the concept of social fluidity on interaction data of playing children.
Thanks to Leiden University Fund for the travel grant!
@universiteitleiden

Stitch together lots of little HTML pages with navigations for interactions

https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/small-html-pages/

#HackerNews #HTML #navigation #webdev #smallpages #interactions

Poll:
* Am I a weird minority that thinks typing on a full keyboard is faster and more accurate than talking, **particularly** if you are in a **shared office**.
* No it just C-suite that works from home by themselves and doesn't realise... that voice isn't the best.
* mixed: voice is OK for emails or prose but *not suited* to C++ code,video editing, fire-wall-rules etc
#ux #ux_design #interactions

In conversation with other #UX practitioners, I often lament that fundamental #CogSci expertise is missing in most of our craft's public discourse. An example for that are the Gestalt Laws, such as figure/ground in this video.

Someone designing human-computer #interactions absolutely must understand these principles, even if they don't know their formal names. Judging from the average software UI shipping these days, alas, it's not taught and/or valued nearly enough.

https://youtu.be/WGZ2jUvBf1w

An interesting summary from the editor:

"AlphaFold’s success in protein structure predictions has led to similar attempts to predict interactomes. Here, the authors demonstrate that AI-based screens are very limited in discovering truly novel interactions compared to experimental screens, exposing open challenges in interaction prediction."

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-70942-x

#AlphaFold #AI #interactions

New publication: #Lipids as currency in #parasitoid competition: #Interactions between two #lipidscavenging species.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jinsphys.2026.104942

Les #interactions de marée sont un facteur clé de l'#évolution orbitale et rotationnelle des systèmes stellaires et (exo-)planétaires proches. Elles constituent le sujet d'étude d'Aurélie Astoul, Chargée de Recherche IRAP.

Ce jeudi, Aurélie présentera la façon dont les ondes de marée peuvent déclencher et interagir avec la #rotation différentielle, modifier l'amplitude et la #topologie des champs magnétiques, parfois par le biais d'#instabilités fluides ou magnétiques : https://www.irap.omp.eu/event/modelling-tidal-waves-and-their-nonlinear-magnetised-coupling-in-stars-and-planets/

A quotation from Robert Louis Stevenson

To an impartial estimate it will seem clear that many of the wisest, most virtuous, and most beneficent parts that are to be played upon the Theatre of Life are filled by gratuitous performers, and pass, among the world at large, as phases of idleness. For in that Theatre, not only the walking gentlemen, singing chambermaids, and diligent fiddlers in the orchestra, but those who look on and clap their hands from the benches, do really play a part and fulfil important offices towards the general result. You are no doubt very dependent on the care of your lawyer and stockbroker, of the guards and signalmen who convey you rapidly from place to place, and the policemen who walk the streets for your protection; but is there not a thought of gratitude in your heart for certain other benefactors who set you smiling when they fall in your way, or season your dinner with good company?

Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poet
Essay (1877-07), “An Apology for Idlers,” Cornhill Magazine, Vol. 36

More about this quote: wist.info/stevenson-robert-lou…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #robertlouisstevenson #interactions #gratitude #awareness #company #life #living #others #people #stage #theater #world

🤖⚡️ Oh look, another riveting piece on how AI coding #agents are apparently guzzling #electricity like it's going out of style. 🌍💧 But fret not, your daily #chatbot #interactions are as impactful as a single drop in an ocean of irrelevance. 🙄💡
https://www.simonpcouch.com/blog/2026-01-20-cc-impact/ #AIcoding #impact #environment #HackerNews #ngated

#Design #Inspirations
Website Inspo · A curated library of well-crafted UI components https://ilo.im/169q0i

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#Interactions #Animations #Transitions #Websites #UiComponents #DesignPatterns #ProductDesign #UiDesign #WebDesign

Looking forward to getting the January issues of #CACM and #Interactions in the mail. #UMAP2026 @abellogin @ACM @sigchi @sigweb

One (unintended?) consequence of #AI in the form of ubiquitous and easily accessible #LLMs: opportunities for #human #interactions with friends/spouses/loved ones/family memories/librarians/mavens/experts etc while in pursuit of information will be replaced by yet another human #computer #interface

“Many contemporary #socialscience approaches ignore the #coevolutionary framework, instead focusing too much on linear regressions. Our world is better understood through #complex #reciprocal #interactions.” (More from the #BrianKlaas piece on #coevolution) open.substack.com/pub/briankla...

"Good Heavens what insect can ...

The #22spot #ladybeetle #Psyllobora #vigintiduopunctata (#Cucujiformia) is native to Europe, Asia, and North Africa. The adults and larvae #feed #mycetophagously on #fungi, specifically on powdery #mildews. When threatened, the beetle shows #thanatosis (plays dead) and secretes a defensive secretion. M. Dillen et al. (2017) studied #multitrophic #interactions between ladybird, mildew, and #oak trees.

© #StefanFWirth Berlin 2025

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https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0176104

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© S.F. Wirth

Maybe I'll go apply to #TikTok, and secure the american app and fix it. TikTok's current #algorithm is #insidious, I think designed to create #division and #radicalize people. Soon TikTok will tell me its #secrets, but I have to work on some #vulns system for a few weeks. Designing some brains for other important non-hobby smtask lol

My initial #scans for #TikTok are #worrying and I was concerned after my initial scans. My #AI systems were flagging everything. The #content never scored high like other #socialmedia platforms. The content is worrying not just from #radical left or right. There is something non-biased about how it tries to #radicalize. Like it is learning based off #heuristics, like time spent hovering over a #videotile. This triggers an #alert, where you didn't interact but it detected the most likely #video. Then provided more #content. It also gives a heavy weight to #interactions. Which then changes the #algorithm and how it provides #content. None of this is really bad, it is trying to be helpfulful. What I find concerning is the videos it provides. Like a stream of #bothsides #content. Trying to figure you out and provide more content. There isn't even #educational poop on TikTok. So most of the content is #madness Lol

#Meta will use #data from user #interactions with its #AIproducts, including #MetaAI #chatbot, #RayBanMeta #smartglasses, and other AI offerings, to sell #targetedads on Facebook and Instagram. This change, effective globally except in South Korea, the UK, and the EU, allows Meta to further refine its ad targeting capabilities. While users #cannotoptout, Meta assures that sensitive data from AI interactions will not be used for ad targeting. https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/01/meta-plans-to-sell-targeted-ads-based-on-data-in-your-ai-chats/?eicker.news #tech #media #news

The U.S. Geological Survey [USGS], The U.S. Department Of Defense [DoD], And The U.S. Intelligence Community [various] - 100 Years Of Mapping And Remote Sensing Collaboration, 1879–1979
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https://pubs.usgs.gov/publication/cir1552 <-- link to USGS circular
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #maps #sharing #spatialanalysis #history #military #intelligence #geointelligence #GEOINT #remotesensing #satellite #earthobservation #datasharing #technology #mission #fedservice #fedscience #wholeofgovernment #interactions #sectors #collaboration #interagency #interdepartmental #governmentbranches
@USGS DoD #CIA #FBI

“unpredictable #societal effects have been a hallmark of powerful #technologies ranging from automobiles to #socialmedia. This is because they are #emergent #effects of #complex #interactions between #technology and #people.” open.substack.com/pub/programm...

Understanding AI as a social t...

#KnowledgeByte: In physics, there are four observed #Fundamental #Interactions (also known as Fundamental #Forces) that form the basis of all known interactions in nature.

Some speculative theories have proposed a fifth force to explain various anomalous observations that do not fit existing theories. Recently some progress made in search for the #FifthForce.

https://knowledgezone.co.in/posts/Fundamental-Forces-of-Nature-64d88bfaed7a1cf91c654df8

#Anthropic has announced new capabilities for its #Claude #AImodels, allowing them to #end conversations in extreme cases of #harmful or #abusive user #interactions. This is being done to #protect the #AImodel itself, not the human user, as part of a programme to study #modelwelfare. The feature is currently limited to Claude Opus 4 and 4.1. https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/16/anthropic-says-some-claude-models-can-now-end-harmful-or-abusive-conversations/?eicker.news #tech #media #news